Join this free, online openSAP course ‘Be Visual! Sketching Basic for IT Business’ and start learning the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually.

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Sketching helps you to communicate abstract ideas and transform them into tangible artifacts that can be further explored and validated. With their low fidelity, sketches provide room for interpretation and invite discussion. Sketches also are a starting point for iteration.

Many companies, such as Google, have come to recognize sketching as a powerful communication tool that can be used not only within a team, but also when collaborating with customers.

The openSAP course ‘Be Visual! Sketching Basic for IT Business’ starts with the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. From basic shapes and handwriting to creating storyboards and screen sketches, you’ll be able to use these techniques whether at a flipchart, whiteboard, or at your desk.

Here is what some participants are saying about the course:

"I like a lot the excercises and realized that sketching is not only about knowledge. Furthermore I think that the links in Week 4 are very helpful to continue working on my sketching skills. …" Read the original post

"I like the latter course content, especially the story boarding section. I found that the most informative and useful, I can see how I can apply that to presentations and bringing clients on a journey in a simply and engaging way." Read the original post

"I have enjoyed the course a lot! I have lost a lot of white paper-board fear and learned how to better plan my drawings." Read the original post

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Martina Schuh leads an innovation team of developers, designers, and other roles. The team shapes the SAP Fiori experience by running projects that enable SAP Fiori development and push the boundaries of the SAP Fiori experience itself.

Since 2005, Martina has been driving the topic of Design Thinking at SAP. She has applied the approach to software development and strategy projects, and has co-lead the development of the Design Thinking curriculum at SAP.

Whenever Martina works with teams, customers, or colleagues, she encourages everybody to share their ideas visually.

As a member of the UX team at SAP, Johanna Wittig focuses on developing new ideas and concepts for interacting with business applications.

Throughout her professional career, she has worked in multidisciplinary teams with the aim of encouraging a multidisciplinary approach and strengthening a productive exchange across disciplines. Time and again, she has experienced that sketches are an excellent medium to reach this goal.

Since joining SAP, Johanna has been driving several teaching formats for visual communication.

Jörg Göppert is a member of a multidisciplinary team that focuses on innovations around SAP Fiori.

The proof-of-concept projects he works on use Design Thinking. This highly iterative approach requires a very open and agile communication between disciplines. Along the whole process, he uses and promotes sketching techniques such as storyboarding and screen sketching in the design phase, and technical architecture sketches in the development phase.

Jörg believes sketching is a very good tool to build up a common understanding within teams.

Ingo Rues is a strategic design consultant currently focusing on envisioning and materializing the next level user experience. He has been innovating, creating, and designing concepts with users’ needs in mind for many years.

Ingo is also a blacksmith, and has built many objects made of metal. This is where his passion for treating material correctly originates from. Professional handling of material is the essential first step towards a great outcome.

When it comes to sketching, Ingo always pays special attention to using materials that best suit the situation and purpose.

Tatjana Borovikov is a design professional with over thirteen years of hands-on experience in diverse industries such as education, finance, marketing, and manufacturing. She has been involved in projects around interaction and interface design, visual design, responsive design, and product design.

Since 2006, Tatjana has been teaching and applying Design Thinking in numerous innovation projects at SAP, leading design and research efforts.

When working on concepts and scenarios for business applications, she invites all team members to use sketching for clear and direct communication.

Anja Fehlau is a design professional with 15 years of experience in IT research and innovation. She has been involved in diverse projects ranging from designing new applications and user experiences, through design enablement topics, to creating spaces and processes for creative collaboration.

Anja has significantly influenced Design Thinking at SAP since it started in 2005, and has facilitated numerous workshops, run projects, and trained people around the globe.

When working in teams, Anja uses storyboarding as a key tool to bring in the user perspective while developing new concepts. It’s a visual language that everyone understands.

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